How to search for names containing a space?

[vext01]

Hi there,

I'm just experimenting with your plugin and I was wondering if there's a way to search for multi-word names with ?

For example, suppose I want U+03D5 GREEK PHI SYMBOL (Ll) ϕ 'ϕ'.

I can type PHI<C-x><C-z>. There are lots of matches and scroll to the letter and select it.

But I could narrow the search if I could search for "GREEK PHI" somehow.

GREEK PHI<C-x><C-z> will search for the word behind the cursor, so you'd only search for "PHI" again.

Is there a way to do it?

Cheers

[PhilRunninger]

Yes, there is. :UnicodeSearch! interprets everything after the command as a regular expression for searching the list of characters; therefore, :UnicodeSearch! greek phi could give you the result you're looking for. However, you should consider other regular expression options to get better results. Let me illustrate with the letter gamma.

:UnicodeSearch! greek gamma
1   ᵞ   U+1D5E Dec:007518        MODIFIER LETTER SMALL GREEK GAMMA ᵞ
Enter one or more numbers of character(s) to insert:

That's not the letter I'm looking for. I suspect there is other descriptive text between GREEK and GAMMA that I should account for.

:UnicodeSearch! greek.*gamma
1   Ͷ   U+0376 Dec:000886        GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PAMPHYLIAN DIGAMMA Ͷ
2   ͷ   U+0377 Dec:000887        GREEK SMALL LETTER PAMPHYLIAN DIGAMMA ͷ
3   Γ   U+0393 Dec:000915        GREEK CAPITAL LETTER GAMMA (G*) Γ
4   γ   U+03B3 Dec:000947        GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA (g*) γ
5   Ϝ   U+03DC Dec:000988        GREEK LETTER DIGAMMA (M3) Ϝ
6   ϝ   U+03DD Dec:000989        GREEK SMALL LETTER DIGAMMA (m3) ϝ ϝ
7   ᴦ   U+1D26 Dec:007462        GREEK LETTER SMALL CAPITAL GAMMA ᴦ
8   ᵞ   U+1D5E Dec:007518        MODIFIER LETTER SMALL GREEK GAMMA ᵞ
9   ᵧ   U+1D67 Dec:007527        GREEK SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER GAMMA ᵧ
Enter one or more numbers of character(s) to insert:

That helped, but I don't want to see DIGAMMA in the list. I'll refine my search to look for GAMMA as a whole word.

:UnicodeSearch! greek.*\<gamma\>
1   Γ   U+0393 Dec:000915        GREEK CAPITAL LETTER GAMMA (G*) &Gamma;
2   γ   U+03B3 Dec:000947        GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA (g*) &gamma;
3   ᴦ   U+1D26 Dec:007462        GREEK LETTER SMALL CAPITAL GAMMA &#x1D26;
4   ᵞ   U+1D5E Dec:007518        MODIFIER LETTER SMALL GREEK GAMMA &#x1D5E;
5   ᵧ   U+1D67 Dec:007527        GREEK SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER GAMMA &#x1D67;
Enter one or more numbers of character(s) to insert: